I do not think you can succeed. There are many dex on the market and very successful projects. Kyber, waves, bitshares etc. you can not compete with them.
Everyone has to start somewhere

That's positivity! You're very right, everyone has to start somewhere. But that's the challenge, so much crypto exchanges already. You need to outstand the others, even if not achieving the level of big exchanges but you have something unique in your platform that customers need.